March 29, 2015 – Please Note: This is a very old posting and includes information that includes folklore about a recipe, i.e. that there are ground hot dogs in Flint Coney sauce. This rumor is patently untrue. Actual facts regarding that particular recipe can be found in our article “Q: Where did the Flint Coney […]
Category: Recipes
Walking Tacos, Ludington-Style
Click on this image for a larger version. Back a couple months ago, Dawn Shock retired as librarian at the Rasey Memorial Library here in Luna Pier. She’d been here for quite some time, and was an incredibly hard worker. She set up the hours at the Rasey Library in such a way that it […]
Eat This Blog & Recipe: Grilled Cedar Plank Salmon
Salmon grilled on a cedar plank. I’ve never done this before, but man is it good! (Click on any of these three images for a larger version.) I’ve been meaning to try this for almost a year now. Mary had bought me these cedar planks for grilling fish and such, but as she doesn’t really […]
Recipe: Golden Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
(Click on the photo for a larger version.) For the past couple days Mary’s had quite a hankering for some Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. Yesterday evening she took a basic recipe for these cookies and kicked it up just a bit while she made them. She used dark brown sugar to give the cookies and added […]
Greek Diner Food & A Diner Recipe for Tricolor Cole Slaw
A serving of Cod with Hashbrowns from Gander’s Restaurant here in Luna Pier, Michigan. While the restaurant’s owners aren’t Greek (they hail from Albania) the food is quite reminiscent of that from some of the better Greek diners I’ve visited over the years. The New York Times recently published an article on the demise of […]
Recipe: Authentic Hungarian Beef Gulyas
Beef Gulyas, from the book Cooking Jewish, served with a couple slices of handmade & fresh Tomato Garlic Bread from the Frog Leg Inn in Erie, Michigan. When you hear the word “goulash” you probably think of that combination of cooked elbow macaroni mixed with stewed tomatoes, chopped onion and green bell pepper, all seasoned with […]
Recipe: Whitefish-Stuffed Salmon
This picture is from June 2006 when I first developed this dish. The camera I used was an original circa 2000 Kodak DC3200, with its 1.2 megapixel CCD sensor and an additional 256M flash card. While the camera still works and is sitting right behind me, we’ve been using duct tape to keep the battery […]
Recipe: Sirloin Shepherd’s Pie
This is a seriously flavorful dish! Traditionally made with ground lamb, Mary kicked up the flavor on her family’s Shepherd’s Pie recipe yesterday evening by replacing the ground lamb with fresh ground sirloin. The resulting dish was so tender I had difficulty getting it out of the bowl in one piece so I could shoot a […]
Recipe: Traditional Chicken Noodle Soup
Click here for an updated version of this recipe, posted on January 14, 2019. So yesterday evening the 6 p.m. news starts on Toledo’s 13abc and it’s our buddy Zack Ottenstein, anchoring by his loneseome self as he has done quite a few times this past week. About a half hour after the broadcast ends, the phone […]
Recipe: Church Window Cookies
Yeah, I’ve been a bit remiss in getting these cookie recipes posted. The fact is I made these Church Window Cookies earlier this week. This evening, 13abc’s Zack Ottenstein came off his first-ever solo anchoring at the news desk, headed directly to our house, had dinner with us while still in makeup … and then Briahna […]